ugcnetonline.in NET Comparative Literature Model Question Paper : University Grants Commission

Name of the Organization : University Grants Commission
Type of the Exam : UGC National Eligibility Test NET
Subject : Comparative Literature
Year : 2014
Document Type : Model Question Paper

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** This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
** All questions are compulsory

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1. The author of “Towards a Politics of Culture”, a theoretical statement about new Historicism, is _________
(A) Stephen Greenblatt
(B) H. Aram Veeser
(C) Stephen Grgel
(D) Michael Licona

2. Among these books which one has not been written by Ngugi Wa Thiongo ?
(A) Decolonising the Mind
(B) Homecoming
(C) Moving the center
(D) The Wretched of the Earth

3. Mughal paintings make an appearance which of the following novels ?
(A) The Tainted Throne
(B) The Empire of Silver
(C) The Last Emperor
(D) Winter on the Plain of Ghosts

4. An imaginative biography of the famous sculptor Ram Kinkar Baij was attempted by
(A) Sourindra Mukhopadhyay
(B) Samaresh Basu
(C) Buddhadev Guha
(D) Suchitra Bhattacharya

5. Mozart’s Don Giovanni has been used by
(A) Auden
(B) Pound
(C) Joyce
(D) Eliot

6. Lust for Life is a biography of
(A) Picasso
(B) Van Gogh
(C) Michel Angelo
(D) Da Vinci

7. Which of the following is a coming of age narrative ?
(A) Death in Venice
(B) Disgrace
(C) Down Second Avenue
(D) Madam Bovary

8. The school of art form which generally influenced Ezra Pound is ________
(A) Dadaism
(B) Impressionism
(C) Vorticism
(D) Cubism

9. Nida’s approach to translation in The theory and practice of Translation is primarily _________
(A) Cultural
(B) Historical
(C) Sociolinguistic
(D) Psycholinguistic

10. Thematologically, the situation constitutes ________
(A) a link between the stoff and the rohstoff
(B) the motif and the action
(C) the motif and the theme
(D) the tale and the plot

11. The critic who asserts that “translation is our way to face the otherness of the universe” is ______
(A) Paz
(B) Bassnett
(C) Brower
(D) Barstone

12. Which of the following does NOT have partition as a theme ?
(A) Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India
(B) Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Balyakala Sakhi
(C) Qurratulain Hyder’s Aag Ka Darya
(D) Kushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan

13. The translator’s invisibility : A history of translation is edited by
(A) Jeremy Munday
(B) Basit Hatim
(C) Laurence Venuti
(D) Itamar Evan Zohar

14. The critic who makes a significant contribution to the theory of translation by his detailed treatment of semantic versus communicative translation is _________.
(A) Catford
(B) Newmark
(C) Evan Zohar
(D) Tomlinson

15. “This poet’s conscious activity focuses primarily on the form. The world liberally supplies the subject matter, while the meaning arises spontaneously out of the fullness of his soul, “This meaning of stoff was articulated by ________
(A) Curtius
(B) Coleridge
(C) Van Tieghem
(D) Goethe

16. The critic who defines translation as the replacement of the source language text material by equivalent target language material is ________
(A) Catford
(B) Croce
(C) Nida
(D) Paz

17. The motive becomes leitmotiv, based on the dynamics of _________
(A) Reiteration
(B) Distortion
(C) Coherence
(D) Similarity

18. The study of folktales was revitalized by which scholar ?
(A) Jakobson
(B) Propp
(C) Lukacs
(D) Fowler

19. Which of the following can be seen as a Machiavellian text ?
(A) Dr. Faustus
(B) Macbeth
(C) Absalom and Achitopel
(D) Samson Agonists

20. The work of Milman Parry concerned the genre of _________
(A) Novel
(B) Comedy
(C) Picaresque
(D) Epic

21. The theorist who holds that Comparative Literature studies the influence that the authors or literatures of one nation have exerted on another is ________
(A) Simon Jenne
(B) Rene Wellek
(C) Harry Levin
(D) Claudio Guillen

22. One of the first writers in classical antiquity “to stress the segregation of literary genres” was _________.
(A) Quintilian
(B) Longinus
(C) Cicero
(D) Aristotle

23. The study of literary reception points to _________.
(A) Sociology
(B) Psychology
(C) Philosophy
(D) Ethics

24. All the following texts come under the category of ‘dystopia’ EXCEPT ________
(A) Zamyatin – We
(B) Huxley – Brave New World
(C) Tolstoy – Death of Ivan Illyeh
(D) Orwell – Nineteen Eighty- Four

25. Vidyasagar’s Bhrantibilas is an early reception of a play by ________.
(A) Moliere
(B) Hugo
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Aeschylus

26. The world’s first novel was produced in _________.
(A) Japan
(B) India
(C) Portugal
(D) China

27. Which Mahabharata character has inspired maximum modern and postmodern retellings in the Indian languages ?
(A) Gandhari
(B) Bhima
(C) Bhishma
(D) Draupadi

28. The term Weltliteratur was coined by _______
(A) Schelling
(B) Goethe
(C) Schlegel
(D) Herder

29. While developing periodisation for modern Indian literary history, the concept of pro-phane and metaphane were developed by.
(A) Ganesh Devy
(B) Amiya Dev
(C) Jasbir Jain
(D) Sisir Kumar Das

30. Who among the following argued that Indian literary historiography must have an indigenous definition of history, an indigenous critical framework and an indigenous historiographical perspective ?
(A) Sri Aurobindo
(B) Sujit Mukherjee
(C) K.M. George
(D) Rabindranath Tagore